don't tell
As much as I expect to get flamed, a gay male would bother me more than a gay female.
If it was simply known that the teacher was gay, just like one might know that a teacher lives on Elm street, but otherwise it is not talked about at all, and has no impact whatsoever on the quality of the teaching, then I would not care.
That, of course, is a theoretical answer. In reality, I would be very concerned that it would constantly creep into the teaching as it seems to me that a very high proportion of homosexuals are seeking approval and acceptance in almost everything that they do.
As long as the gay lifestyle, or ANY sex talk was never presented, I'd have no issue with it.
Yes, no need to go further, I'd pull my child. Period
I'm a grandfather now, with more wisdom than I had when when I was younger. I might have tolerated it then, to my child's detrement. Of course, they weren't such an open threat then either.
Pedophiles are gay men that are attracted to young boys, they have a name amoung gay's, they call them "chickenhawks".
I am against gay's of any sex teaching children under the age of 25.
Most are sex addicts, having sex with as many as 1,000 "partners" a year, regradless if they are male or female gays.
Yes,No,No
For the same reason that I would mind if the teacher was mormon or jehovah'witness, as long as they didn't proseletize it would be their own business.
No such thing, open and flaming are synonomous terms.
It he/she is not "flaming," how would their sexual preference even come up at school?
If I found out through someone who knows from outside of school, I wouldn't care. Who a teacher sleeps with just should not come up at school. I suppose this would be less problematic with younger grades where sexuality would just not come up at all.
However, even a high school health teacher's own sexual preference, (homo/hetero,pre-marital, etc) should not be a topic for discussion in these classes.
I guess, under those circumstances, I wouldn't care. However, if the teacher was bringing his or her own sexuality into the discussion, I would object, even if they were a married heterosexual.
I prefer my kids' teachers not discuss their sex lives at all.
We had gay teachers but they never, I repeat, never said a word. Our theatre directors were a gay couple who lived together. We went on beach and mountain trips together and they NEVER discussed their relationship.
Teachers aren't supposed to be alone with kids anyway.
If a sexual deviant wants to teach children, they should at LEAST be obligated to keep their deviant ways hidden. You wouldn't want an openly anything else deviant teaching the kids. Kids, especially the younger ones, tend to really look up to their teacher. At minimum, they are subject to their teacher's authority. It ought to be an authority worthy of respect.
Yes, No, No.
No teacher that I know of is "openly straight". If I know that he/she is gay that's already too much.
What is the difference?
If he is openly gay he is looking for acknowledgement of his sexual behavior (Not appropriate for schooling children). If he is flaming is he wearing a Batman suit to class? (Most definitely not appropriate for schooling children).
If the teacher simply teaches the subject matter (and NOT his/her lifestyle), I couldn't care less about what happens outside the classroom. JMO.
I am a former high school English teacher. I know the kinds of questions kids ask, the way they can come to "adore" a particular teacher, their need to be "in with the teacher," their insecurities. I would never approve of an open homosexual, male or female, teaching in any school below the college level. I would never approve of any practicing homosexual teaching any children of any age. I would hesitate to allow any closeted (so then how would I know?) homosexual near a lower school classroom. If a student is under the age of 18, he or she should not be influenced in any manner by one who practices any perversion.